Sports Days 2022

Sports Days

Year 7 to 10 participated in the Year group sports days on 20th and 21st June. The full range of field and track activities took place and every student was encouraged to participate in at least one event. It was a fun couple of days, with a supportive atmosphere and students cheered each other on. Milestone @The Leigh students also joined in.

Intra College Sports Days

The Leigh Academy College Sports Day took place on Monday 4th July., and involved students who had been selected through to this round, following on from the year group sports days. The event involved all four colleges competing against each other to win the trophy for best athletics college of the year. Previously da Vinci college had won this award for seven consecutive years and were confident of an eighth title. However, this year the standard of athletics was higher than ever from all four colleges and when the relay, the final event of the day started the points scores were extremely close. After some impressive wins in the relay, Brunel won the trophy this year and were crowned Leigh Academy College Champions to the delight of Mr Shepherd.

Please see below the final scores:

1st Brunel 638 points

2nd Da Vinci 630 points

3rd Chaucer 587 points

4th Darwin 534 points

The LAT Sports Day 2022

For the first time this year the LAT Sports Day took place across two days due to the increase in the number of academies; now 17 in total. The Year 7 and 8 competition took place on Monday 11th July and the Year 9 and 10 event took place on Thursday 14th July. Both events were equally challenging with temperatures of over 30 degrees. Despite this the level of competition was higher than ever, with some impressive performances across all events.

The Leigh Academy teams were competing with the top athletics schools in The Leigh Trust over both days and finished very strongly on the Thursday to ensure that silverware was once again brought back to The Leigh Academy. The Boys team finished 1st out of the 17 competing academies and the girls team also performed well finishing second behind The Leigh Academy Blackheath. Please see below some pictures and the full list of results:

Careers In Sport Event with Charlton Athletic Community Trust

In Module 5 and 6, the Y10 GCSE PE class took part in the Careers in Sport workshops with Charlton Athletic Community Trust. These sessions were in partnership with KMPF and Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) and aimed to introduce young people to the many and varied career opportunities in sport.

The Year 10s took part in four workshops, three of which took place onsite at The Leigh Academy. In the sessions, students were led by a Charlton coach who taught them practical elements to coaching such as the importance of a warm up, how to engage young children into sport and managing people. During these sessions, students also had the opportunity to work within a classroom environment to assimilate other jobs in sport such as advertising and marketing, media and business and finance.

For their final session we went to Dartford Football Club where once again students had the opportunity to take part in practical sessions run by Sport lecturers from the University of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church and Charlton Athletic coaches, teachers and sports analysts. This was a fantastic event for our students and a real insight to the vast amount of jobs that are available in the sporting industry!